Surgo Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 So, here's an idea for a somewhat higher-powered fantasy campaign that I was wondering if anyone tried before: Everyman Magic. The idea is simple: if it's easy/sensible to scale it, take your campaign's magic system and give it, in some small or medium scale, for free, to each PC. Not necessarily every character, just each PC. Then PCs then differentiate themselves with the rest of their character points: if they want to be very magic focused they can spend a lot improving themselves in that system, or they can buy combat abilities, or pretty much whatever in terms of independent powers. I imagine it would, obviously, work best with a magic system that was somehow limited in producible effect. Maybe it's "only known spells" (Harry Potter style, with a power framework and free known spells) or everyone has to specialize somehow (one guy's a healer, the other does fun things with necromancy, etc.) Then, if one player wanted to be a super-awesome mage, there would need to be a straightforward way to scale up their power (control cost of a VPP, for example). Has anyone tried to do something like this, and how well did it work? I could see it as a way to give everyone a very broad base of horizontal abilities, with their real vertical abilities being what they spent a lot of actual character points on. Just an idea, which will maybe make its way into my next campaign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted March 20, 2012 Report Share Posted March 20, 2012 Re: "Everyman" Magic? Hmm...Giving 10-25 free character points for some themed magical abilities might be a simple way to do that. Or use the "Equipment Point" rules, only re-SFX them as "Arcane Points" or somesuch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Goodwin Posted March 21, 2012 Report Share Posted March 21, 2012 Re: "Everyman" Magic? Allow me to suggest power stunts off of Power Skill: Magic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maccabe Posted March 21, 2012 Report Share Posted March 21, 2012 Re: "Everyman" Magic? Way back I thought of a campaign based off the old Visionaries comic book/cartoon. Each character/PC would have some version of Multiform for their "animal" form, but since the comic book and cartoon were short lived it never got off the ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ndreare Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 Re: "Everyman" Magic? In my warders of Ailiden setting each player was given extra points and told they had to be spent on magic knacks or skills. It worked out okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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